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user-inactivated · 2768 days ago · link · · parent · post: Old Handsign Meaning "OK" Triggers Girl Who Once Saw a Pepe Meme Doing It
It is an old 4Chan joke. To explain it would take about an hour, but the central core is that a significant portion of 4Chan users have some form of autism. It's been weaponized to attack Shia LeBeof, to attack Scientology, to find ISIS camps. It has also been used to mess with people and ruin innocent (well kinda innocent) people. "Peak Autism" is a self-effacing joke at the expense of the person speaking. The term is usually used in reference to someone with no social awareness who does not get a joke or obvious sarcasm. Example? What do you call a group of Autistic adults sitting around a table? Engineers.